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Re: Rename Postgres 19 to Postgres 26 (year-based)?

jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> — 2026-05-25T23:28:06Z

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 6:22 AM Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik@postgres.ai> wrote:
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> The slip risk, the N+1 marketing-renumbering precedent, and the possibility that cadence may change (biannual or otherwise) -- all make sense.
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> Year-tied version numbers don't fit. Let me propose something smaller that still addresses the underlying user problem — knowing at a glance how old a release is and when it goes EOL.
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> I have another, much lighter proposal. In fact, two paths:
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> 1) Docs. Add something like "Major version NN released YYYY, EOL Mon YYYY" explicitly on pages like:
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> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html
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https://www.postgresql.org/docs/
After "PDF Version", add another column makes sense to me.

> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html
For these two links, I'm not entirely sure where the best place to put
that information would be.